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Now a tradition (although I had to be reminded by Pete ), the first lines of the first post of each month in 2010... January Typically, the ...

And finally... I have read 37 novels, novellas, or collections of stories written for adult readers in 2010, the bulk of my pleasu...

Delightful Thomas at My Porch posted this, so I have promptly stolen it and altered to suit my needs (appropriation is one of the sincerest...

I hope everyone who celebrates christmas had a good one. Next year end list: books for young readers (YA fiction), a category I enjoy, but...

David Albahari's Leeches came to me courtesy of Houghton Mifflin (thanks!) and is not due out until next April. It is a feverish and f...

I will begin the list madness with my non-fiction reads for 2010. I read quite a bit of non-fiction this year. I have read 51 books so fa...

Since I'm not quite done with David Albahari's Leeches and I'm not quite ready for my list madness to begin, I think I'll d...

It has been so long since I have done a post about what I'm looking forward to reading. 'Tis the season when I have a little more t...

I am grateful to John Self for having introduced me to another Irish wordsmith who can wring from the despair of his fellow souls graceful ...

Carl Zimmer's 2008 book Microcosm is like the microbiology he writes about. He takes the pesky little bacterium Escherichia coli , and...

In-flo-res-cence - from the Latin inflorescere - to begin to blossom. 1. the producing of blossoms; flowering; 2. the arrangement of flo...

Usually the word bestseller sends me running for cover (I'm such a snob), and I no longer remember what lead me to Nicole Krauss'...

The search for two halves of a torn text, lettered in a mysterious, forgotten alphabet on a piece of silk and dropped from the door of a mov...

Something recently prompted me to return to a childhood favorite, Mary Norton's The Borrowers , although I cannot for the life of me rem...

The folks at Edify Media were kind enough to send me an copy of Frank Cottrell Boyce's novel for young readers (8 - 12 says the marke...

It was Verbivore who alerted me to young Chilean writer, Alejandro Zambra, and his 2007 novella The Private Lives of Trees and I am glad s...

Hans Keilson wrote Comedy in a Minor Key over fifty years ago after emigrating to Holland from Nazi-occupied Germany. Keilson was a child...

The Hustle by Doug Merlino is about the socio-politics, economics, and personal drama of relations between blacks and whites in America. ...

Name a book (or books) from a country other than your own that you love. Or aren’t there any? You're kidding, right? How can you love ...